Firefox 3 was released yesterday and there was a great buzz about it. Mozilla announced special "Download day". As I have read there was about 7.5 million downloads of FF yesterday. I've started using it from Beta 6. And I have to say that I couldn't share the joy about FF of others. No, I don't speak new features: they are good and I love new address bar which search not only through addresses but also through titles of pages. I'm speaking about FF bugs. FF crashes regularly on my computer. Most of problems occur on AJAX sites like GMail or Todoist after closing the tab with this site (though it doesn't crash always after closing this site). It seems that this is one error which causes crashes on my computer.
Another issue happened with bookmarks: at one day FF deleted all my bookmarks (I don't remember but may this already happened to me with FF 2). In itself this isn't a dramatic problem: FF creates daily backups of bookmarks and I also have done them in JSON format. But... FF refused to restore backup and said there is an error. Luckily final release of FF 3 was able to import my bookmarks :).
There are also some other issues with Internet (some pictures are not loaded from first few attempts and some pages also) but I'm not sure they are caused by FF because it seems other browsers also suffer from it.
But the bug with GMail really disturbs me. May be it is caused by any specific setting or software on my computer but I've made some new clean installs of FF and this didn't helped. And FF after crash doesn't say something meaningful about the reason of error: if it is caused by any plug-in or extension why not say this me so I'll disable it?
In coclusion I have to say that FF 2 had some really disturbing bug: sometimes it became frozen and doesn't respond to my actions but after about half a minute it came bake to normal work cycle. It seems in FF 3 this bug is fixed. But... it also seems that some new bugs came into it. So now I use Prism to work with GMail and Todoist. But Opera with it's new release 9.50 gets a new chance on my computer :)
Another issue happened with bookmarks: at one day FF deleted all my bookmarks (I don't remember but may this already happened to me with FF 2). In itself this isn't a dramatic problem: FF creates daily backups of bookmarks and I also have done them in JSON format. But... FF refused to restore backup and said there is an error. Luckily final release of FF 3 was able to import my bookmarks :).
There are also some other issues with Internet (some pictures are not loaded from first few attempts and some pages also) but I'm not sure they are caused by FF because it seems other browsers also suffer from it.
But the bug with GMail really disturbs me. May be it is caused by any specific setting or software on my computer but I've made some new clean installs of FF and this didn't helped. And FF after crash doesn't say something meaningful about the reason of error: if it is caused by any plug-in or extension why not say this me so I'll disable it?
In coclusion I have to say that FF 2 had some really disturbing bug: sometimes it became frozen and doesn't respond to my actions but after about half a minute it came bake to normal work cycle. It seems in FF 3 this bug is fixed. But... it also seems that some new bugs came into it. So now I use Prism to work with GMail and Todoist. But Opera with it's new release 9.50 gets a new chance on my computer :)
